Long Burn

Annie Taylor

On this day in 1901 Anna Edson Taylor, a 63-year-old Civil War widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Annie said, "I prayed every second I was in the barrel except for a few seconds after the fall when I went unconscious." And, "Nobody ought ever to do that again."

posted by Matt_J @ 3:50 PM